I'm finding that audio tracks containing large album art images show thumbnails correctly in the list of tracks in XMB, but when actually playing the track (eg: over the Earth/Canyon visualisers) the PS3 album art image is shown. The same audio track streamed through other DLNA servers (eg: Twonky) shows the album art correctly in both places.

In my case, my album art is part of the AAC .m4a files I have as part of my iTunes library. Normally I have .m4a excluded from transcoding - so PMS streams AAC data to the PS3. Reverting this such that .m4a files get transcoded to PCM does not resolve this.

Here is data from DEBUG.LOG from a track that works without problems (displaying album art in both places correctly):

Dean wrote: and it appears that there appears to be a size restriction of exactly 100k (102400 bytes) related to the thumbnail display during playback.

Image dimensions don't seem to be a factor.. I've tried large compressible images, and as long as the size comes in less that 102400 bytes, it displays perfectly.

Cheers,Dean

@Dean

Way to go mate!! This is really a good finding! I have spend hours on this. I wanted to create "Playlist" folders. Filling them with mp3 files that have the right ID3 tags and Album Art. I could not understand why I had some files showing up perfectly and others, taged exactly the same as others, not showing the Album Art.

And then.... I read your post. Knocked myself once or twice that I did not check file sizes at all (while checking its dimensions....), checked what mp3's did stream the album art and INDEED, it is the size of the .jpg!! Now it is all working just fine!!